This holiday season, I am thankful for my community. Thankful for all the support that has been given to me this year, for all the support of the Cynthiana Main Street Program.
Our community is making a comeback and for that I am thankful!
There has been a sense of community this year.
Many events have been successful, many families have been downtown together. Our community has started many traditions.

I attended a Lion’s Club meeting on Tuesday at noon and interviewed Shon Walker that evening. Those two events made me realize something that is probably true for most of us.
Our middle school and high school years probably were the best years of our lives.
At least, those are the years that are most nostalgic for us and created memories that have endured for a lifetime.

Times they are a changin’.
Kelly and I have been married for 32 years and had established some long-standing traditions for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I say “had,” because at least one of those traditions has changed this year.
For the first few years of our marriage, we punished ourselves on Thanksgiving Day by taking in two Thanksgiving feasts. One in Maysville with the Calverts and one in Cynthiana with the Kendalls.

It’s Thanksgiving. There is much to be thankful for all year round, but we always culminate that into one weekend. Because our forefathers chose this Thursday to collectively be thankful, this is when we gather with family and friends.
We cook, we eat, we (at least some) watch football and the rest allow the tryptophan to do its damage.
I have these observations from years of experience.

Have you ever been ice skating?
Is this something on your bucket list?
Well, guess what!
Cynthiana Main Street has exciting news, we are bringing an ice skating rink to downtown Cynthiana. In December, we are hosting an Ice Skating Extravaganza.
As you know, I am all for bringing people into downtown and offering things for kids to do. This year, with the support of several businesses and organizations, we were able to make this happen.

Many thanks to Betsy Smith for filling in for me during my latest health “issue.”
Betsy is a talented writer and penned some really interesting articles!
She has set the bar much higher for me...gee thanks, Betsy!
Thanks also to my workmates and bosses at the Cynthiana Democrat for being patient with me while I continue to recover.
It would have been very easy for them to simply replace me with someone else, and they didn’t do that.
They have gone over and above the call of duty.